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No the most powerful thing in Animar is any Morph card
I have a question why is Jimmy on Parker plays
Based on the cards that Ive put into my decks, here’s a couple of colorless picks I think you missed-
Ashnod’s altar
Scroll rack
Library of Leng
Mishra’s factory
Command tower/sphere
Prophetic prism/chromatic lantern
Basalt/grim monolith
Burnished Hart
Howling mine
Jitte
Sword of the animist
Mask of memory
Has there been an episode about setting up a league and what types of rules are good for a league?
i think you guys should make a video on how to fight and beat different play styles/archetypes although you guys have talked about combo, but how do you fight combat, aggro, control and whatever other types of decks there are
18:06 that’s some top top discussion. Looking at the top three then topping to put top on the top drawing the top card to top your opponent’s top plays to top the topping topiary topographic topic top top top top top
I do not think fetches are worse without shocks. Fetches can get all kinds of lands, not just shocks, including the lands you named with basic land types on them.
I like all of the cards talked about on your list. Well done and thought out. A few staples I like that weren’t mentioned are Terminus, Black sun’s zenith, merciless eviction, duplicant, spine of ish sah, swan song, evacuation, sudden spoiling, triumph of the hordes, blasphemous act, song of the dryads, dig through time and elixir of imortality.
I would put Fields of Ruin way over strip mine, the fact that you are not down a land is HUGE.
Command Zone content has been pretty lacking recently aside from Game Knights. They basically keep talking about EXTREMELY broad things like top tens and staple cards instead of something that has been widely requested like Deck Doctors (was their last one during episode 120-something?) I already know that Cyclonic Rift and Vedalken Orrery and Solemn Simulacrum are good, what else can you offer me? It seems like every episode they put out lately is assumed to be half the audience’s FIRST episode.
i was thinking of a token commander deck with liliana, the last hope and xenagos the revvaler and itlimoc with mana ramp fo days
Necropotence if I’m running black and ironically it’s cheaper to buy than phyrexian arena
hmm what about command tower?
Maybe in green, genesis wave and ofc lifecrafter’s bestiary
Explore in green: 2 lands in one turn and draw a card fpr 2 mana cost
Tutors. You forgot about tutors
What do you think about Thematic Compass for mana ramp?
You know what’s better than Lightning Greaves in a Mizzix deck? Diplomatic Immunity. The blue Lightning Greaves lite (because you lose haste but Diplomatic Immunity is also hexproof!).
Hedron Archive can pretty much go in any deck it’s budget and it’s amazing!!! Also Seer’s Lantern and Magnifying Glass are so underrated. The problem with rocks is they don’t do anything late game but these guys in a 1 or two color deck are amazing super budget and can go in any deck. Lastly I don’t always play red but when I do I play Blood Moon lol.
Sylvan libary for green and mono green or general non-blue green combination can be amazing and it is almost top like or brainstorm at your upkeep
I don’t like watching your videos anymore. Each one ends up costing me about hundred bucks in new cards.
Guys, Ash Barrens is expensive because it sees a ton of play in Pauper, not Commander
I think that bane of progress deserves an honorable mention as well
Vedalken Orrery + Rashmi + Seedborn Muse, man that’s good.
Grafted exoskeleton is my commander staple
Craig edited this? So that’s why my fingers started withering away after I clicked on the video!
lifecrafter’s bestiary…????? Anyone else agree???
How do you guys get those animated card arts? They are amazing
Would you be agreeable to using the ‘checklist’ proxy system, but using a photocopy of the original card instead, with a binder of all of the cards used this way off to the side?
You forgot very important cards to ramp like, Thawing Glaciers, Myriad Landscape, Krosan Verge, Blighted Woodland, and Sakura-Tribe Elder. All are very affordable, and most fits in most decks. I am very disappointed you two guys for this. Ya’ll usually do better than that.
Not very fond of this video – so many unentertaining cards that everyone should use ? I don’t understand why you’re proposing Rampant Growth in many videos – If you’re after maximal power just compare it to Sakura-Tribe Elder and you’ll see.
lol I play in France they have a very harsh view on sensei diving top^^
Skull clamp
You forgot Lim duls vault
One thing I do, I put a piece of paper in my sleeve for decks that share cards, but it only works with two decks. But I like the way you guys have presented, seems MUCH better.
Animar is by far my favourite commander deck, it is all about combo! Forget Swiftfoot Boots, rush for Purphoros + Ancestral Statue, Cloudstone Curio + Morph creatures, Earthcraft + Shrieking Drake/Dream Stalker/alike…Cloudstone Curio + Oblivion Sower + Ulamog… Animar is the sweetest commander I’ve ever seen!
Full list:
Sensei’s Divining Top
Strip Mine
Solemn Simulacrum
Lightning Greaves
Maze of Ith
Shock Lands
Fellwar Stone / Signets
Fetchlands
Vedalken Orrery
Sword of Feast and Famine
Ancient Tomb
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
Path to exile / Swords to Plowshares
Elspeth, Sun’s Champion
Cyclonic Rift
Rhystic Study
Demonic Tutor
Phyrexian Arena
Vandalblast
Chaos Warp
Eternal Witness
Cultivate / Kodama’s Reach / Rampant Growth / Farseek
Aura Shards
Supreme Veredict
Mana Crypt
Gaea’s Cradle
Cabal Coffers / Urborg, Tob of Yawgmoth
Vedalken Orrery is decent in my decks due only to the fact that it allows me to reanimate Eldrazi Titans due to boosting traditional reanimate to instant speed so that one can respond to a shuffle trigger. This being said, Orrey doesn’t go into all decks. It’s decent
I use foil proxies I make myself instead of a checklist card. Rather than have an ugly written on card, I can just have a foil card with really cool art I like on it.
In one of my last game I chaos warped my own kaervek that someone had control shuffle him into my deck and then flipped him from to the top to the battlefield
i use maze of ith with my commander horobi because why not make people hate you
Two cards on your list are even more awesome together. You can Land Tax without getting a land just to shufffle making Sensei’s Divining Top rock.
Ashnod’s alter is not on the list and I swear to god if I don’t see mystic remora…
The no land destruction thing is horrible. I ultimated Ajani to a mate of mine (first and only time in my life)… just for the laughs because he just kind of forgot to attack Ajani and kill him… a year ago… he still targets me first almost every game.
There is a “secret combo” with chaos warp, if you target your commander the deck is not suffle, you just reveal the top card. With vampirc tutor or stuff alike you can give a surprise
Hey guys I enjoy your show, also I was wondering if you guy had a list of the best hatebears for edh
Who’s Terry?
Nice this really helped me for 6 or 12 commander decks. Thank you for all your hard work
Thanks for clearing that for me Jimmy- I was thinking off-color fetches were off-limits. You guys did not mention the Panorama cycle for fetchlands.